“Caring for life…” Day for Reflection

In the context of Advent, the Provincial Animation Commission (CAP) of Canada organised a virtual reflection meeting based on Brother Ernesto’s Circular “Homes of light. Caring for life. Generating new life“. To animate this time of reflection, the Provincial Animation team called upon Brother Réal Sauvageau, a Canadian Brother currently Master of Novices at the Novitiate in Sri Lanka, in the context of Lavalla>200.

Brother Réal focused his presentation on the second part of the Circular: “Foyers de Lumière qui prennent soin de la vie”. Starting from a montage that presented the main lines of this theme, he took care to concretise how this care is demonstrated in the details through which we lived from day to day, recalling the link with “the little virtues” that enrich the daily life of our communities and our families. After the presentation, the participants had the opportunity to share at some length, in teams of six or seven, their own experiences around this invitation to be homes that attract and nurture those who are close to us on a daily basis.

This meeting was intended for brothers and lay people in Canada: the most propitious moment in Canada was Saturday, December 12 from 9 to 11 a.m. (the meeting even went beyond that…). But the invitation had also been extended to the brothers and laypeople of Belgium, with the help of the linguistic link: many joined the Marists of Canada (despite the time difference…) to form one family. The pandemic will have the advantage of helping to bring us closer together, whereas we are obliged to confine ourselves…